Yesterday, during the most insane launch event in the history of technology, Samsung unveiled its next big flagship, the Galaxy S4. I really couldn't care less about this new phone - another plastic phone that looks exactly like its predecessor - but the flurry of interviews with Samsung executives that followed is far more interesting. With them, Samsung has repositioned Tizen - and if you connect the dots, something interesting is starting to appear.

Maybe 90% of all apps that use the NDK are games. And based on my information I am 95% sure that these won't be too hard to port. OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 is in there, and apparently even Qt and GTK apps will still run, so it seems that standard GCC and other standard Linux bits are all included. On top of that Samsung aren't stupid and I highly doubt they would shoot themselves in the foot by making it harder to port games than it needs to be.

As for hybrid (non-game) apps, maybe it's a different story, but seriously, I doubt the lack of these few apps will mean the downfall of the entire OS...